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Well, she picked up speed, I think between ten and fifteen miles an hour, I don't think over, I don't think over that. Well, we went, we come about twenty feet I should judge, I tell you, as near as I can remember. We were just about twenty feet, twenty-five feet from these gates I was just looking right inside. I was sitting looking out through the window, straight through the windshield right past him, and, just before I seen the gates, and just before these gates loomed before us, I seen something unusually dark right in front of us, but there was a dense darkness in front of us, and of course I didn't pay attention, I would have seen the gates and the lamp in front of us. retracted All the word that George said, "Oh my God," and grabbed the throttle. I grabbed the little girl in one hand. Whether it was due to the frost that is on the planks, I can't tell you but we slid right on. The gates, there was no resistance; they just flew apart and in an instant we were in the water. Well, of course, as far as I am concerned, I remember that just when when I seen we was on the edge retracted here, thought I will get out from here, that is my right hand side, I will get out here, I know I am unable to tell just what I did. Well, fortunately she did not turn head over heels, but there was a loud crash when we hit the water, - I could feel the water coming in, but just as soon, I kept pounding away on the right hand side and there was somebody right behind me pounding me on the right shoulder, and after I got this hole out through here, I stuck my head through, and one of the little girls was hitting me, and one little girl on the tail of my coat. After I got out through the hole in the machine, I went down to the bottom of the river on my hands and knees, and I lost hold of the little girl and something hit me square on the nose. It was the wheel of the car. I gave it a push and I started to swing away from it.
